The media has been speculating that I fired Rex Tillerson or that he would be leaving soon - FAKE NEWS! He’s not leaving and while we disagree on certain subjects, (I call the final shots) we work well together and America is highly respected again!https://t.co/FrqiPLFJ1E

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Incidentally, the splash over the Flynn case (the true importance of which is like a stolen can of premium air or sunshine ) is probably a press maneuver to get the Congressional disposition to pass the tax overhaul plan off the front pages. Then there's that damn Steinle case where her illegal alien murderer was let off.

All the fake news media is doing with this string of Flynn puff pieces is to buy some time to take a breath and that's about all. Just because the front page space got hogged for a little by garbage news, the enthusiasm for the tax plan passing will not wane, especially once it passes, nor will the general fury on the conservative side at the Steinle case verdict. These stories are not going anywhere.

The Flynn fizzle will pass, though, except for, maybe, on Rachel Maddow's show. She is doing her damnedest to become a left-wing Alex Jones (but is actually becoming more like a leftish miniature Jeff Rense ).

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This time the fake news media stepped in it to the point their own team is going to eat someone alive. Raw.

Brian Ross made a fake news report on Flynn flipping on President Trump. I want to provide a video, but the ABC reputation management folks are scrubbing the videos from the Internet as fast as folks can put them up. (Thank God for DuckDuckGobecause elsewhere this doesn't even pop up on normal searches at places like Google, YouTube, etc.)

JUST IN: @BrianRoss on @ABC News Special Report: Michael Flynn promised "full cooperation to the Mueller team" and is prepared to testify that as a candidate, Donald Trump "directed him to make contact with the Russians." https://t.co/aiagnvr8eS pic.twitter.com/r8u2LWAd0O

UPDATE: ABC News has deleted the above video of Ross' report from Friday morning after investigative reporter Brian Ross retracted the explosive claim that Flynn would be willing to testify against Trump.

The fake news bosses are not amused. See the following from Politico, for just one example:

Imagine how many top dogs--I mean the owners of the fake news media and their cronies, not the journalists or management--lost a butt-load of money in this affair where they have their trades set on automatic electronically rigged hair-triggers and shut-downs for too rapid activity.

I have a feeling some bad weather is coming to ABC for a spell.

If you work in the fake news media, you can screw over the general public. That's permitted. In fact, you should. But by God, by all eternity and by all that is sacred and profane, you better not screw with the ruling class's money. That can get people killed.

Ah... schadenfreude... thy taste is sweet like stolen honey when the bees are busy stinging assholes...

If you work in the fake news media, you can screw over the general public. That's permitted. In fact, you should. But by God, by all eternity and by all that is sacred and profane, you better not screw with the ruling class's money. That can get people killed.

Ah... schadenfreude... thy taste is sweet like stolen honey when the bees are busy stinging assholes...

And how about when the President himself pokes them in the eye over their lost money by bringing it up in public?

He even tells them what to do (savage ABC.).

President Trump must be laughing at the prospect of the ruling class elites suing one of their own media jewels. I know I am.

It's either that or accept their money loss for gross incompetence at serving up propaganda. And if they accept the money loss, I have no doubt the President will laugh at them in public for being idiots.

People who lost money when the Stock Market went down 350 points based on the False and Dishonest reporting of Brian Ross of @ABC News (he has been suspended), should consider hiring a lawyer and suing ABC for the damages this bad reporting has caused - many millions of dollars!

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Here is a different take on fake news based on analyzing political comedy TV show personalities, starting with some serious analysis by Jon Stewart.

The gist is that the 24 hour news networks, after the first Iraq war, had to start manufacturing scandals if they wanted to keep their audiences watching and sponsors paying. Stewart started helping that along with news satire, even as he criticized the need for it.

Stewart's problem is that he took a political side (Democrat) and so did his progeny. Thus this form of satire evolved lopsided and, for lack of diversity (heh), now one show sounds like another.

Although the video doesn't say, the slide by satire news into fake news became inevitable since the shows had to side with mainstream news.

The 24 hour news network structure itself is a self-corrupting process, but I don't believe this is the main reason the mainstream news media became fake news. It helped, though. It greased the chute real good.

Even based on those eleven items among the vast number that occurred, it's clear that the US mainstream press is--to use a phrase the mainstream press loves and repeats over and over these days--a shithole.

Facebook is screwing this up big time. A social media site is a love affair for the user.

I don't know anyone who has had doubts about their relationship and started to drift away, then came back solid and stayed because their partner started to nag them to death. In fact, that's the best way to make sure the relationship loses any chance of surviving.

So I don't know how long Facebook will be able to hide this crack, but I suspect for not too long.

After all, if this crack grows and hits a tipping point (which is a plausible risk where people are free to choose), how does one hide a stampede?

I am absolutely sure the other tech giants are going to make the same mistakes Facebook is making and will make. They are all populated with young lefties who think they know how to run the users' lives better than their users can.

They should stop the manipulation crap and politics and let users use their platforms as they see fit. But after the Arab Spring, I think political power (and, of course, the money) has gone to the heads of these technocratic kids.

I don't see them resorting to freedom as their business model anytime soon. The closest they will get will be an illusion of freedom among agenda-driven binds--a good term for this is bounded choice. This is a control situation where they get users to believe the only choices that exist anywhere in the world are the ones in front of them on the platform.

Except I think users are starting to show that have BS meters in good working order.

Yeah. Trump lies. The press lies. Obama lied (and still does despite being out of office). Politicians and media don't care much for truth, except when it's to their personal and political advantage.

The fun thing is that Trump has indeed pulled a "hostile takeover" of the concept "fake news." He took away the left's weapon and bloodied them with it. They don't know what to do in response. They're not used to someone fighting back, let alone kicking their asses.

Imagine what they'd be doing to Jeb! right now, and how he'd be cowering and caving. Or Kasich. God, they'd destroy him.

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I wish I could find legacy media anti-Trump humor like that video above funny, but it's just so goddam lame on comedy values, I start shaking my foot and fidgeting wondering when something is going to happen. And the more I wait, the more nothing ever goes anywhere. There's no arc, there's no set up and payoff, there's no indirect but obvious unspoken stuff for the audience to get (think Bill Hicks), there's no nothing. Just snark. And snark qua snark isn't funny.

I like anti-Trump stuff when it's funny (see here). I bust a gut, too.

But this unfunny problem with anti-Trumpers goes further. I keep reading articles that pop up and say late night comedians are not funny anymore because they turned into propaganda. Don't search for these articles on Google, though. You won't find any without going through a thousand different keyword variations. (The Google SJW's are in gatekeeper mode.)

The gist of the message in these articles is that late night comedy hosts play to their niche anti-Trump audience, but exclude the majority of the public. They are nothing like Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett (who leaned left but played for the wide audience), and people like that. They used to horse around about universal values with a sporadic political quip. Current late night comics are 90% anti-Trump politics and 10% lame comments about other stuff. What's worse, even their political jokes show degraded mediocrity. When "cockholster" and a decapitated head are the pinnacle of their wit, something is off with their professionalism as comics.

Seeing that President Trump will not last forever, what are these guys going to do in seven years when the object of their material goes away and they are rusty as hell about real comedy? What are they going to do other than be replaced, hopefully, by real comedians?

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But this unfunny problem with anti-Trumpers goes further. I keep reading articles that pop up and say late night comedians are not funny anymore because they turned into propaganda.

I've seen some of the articles that you're talking about. "Comedians" don't do comedy anymore, they do sanctimony. They're late night sanctimonians.

2 hours ago, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

The gist of the message in these articles is that late night comedy hosts play to their niche anti-Trump audience, but exclude the majority of the public. They are nothing like Johnny Carson, Dick Cavett (who leaned left but played for the wide audience), and people like that. They used to horse around about universal values with a sporadic political quip. Current late night comics are 90% anti-Trump politics and 10% lame comments about other stuff. What's worse, even their political jokes show degraded mediocrity. When "cockholster" and a decapitated head are the pinnacle of their wit, something is off with their professionalism as comics.

Seeing that President Trump will not last forever, what are these guys going to do in seven years when the object of their material goes away and they are rusty as hell about real comedy? What are they going to do other than be replaced, hopefully, by real comedians?

Michael

The cause of the material not being funny is the fucked up value premises. It's like someone looking down his nose and making fun of people for being foolish enough to like freedom, or an abundance of food, or pleasure rather than pain.

"So, what's up with these paranoid hillbillies who don't want to be taken care of by government and guided on how to live? Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? Yeah, apparently they think they can make better choices for their lives than the smartest, most virtuous people in the world. I'm not making this up. This is a real thing out there. They actually ignorant enough to believe that their lives will be better if they get to keep all their pay rather than letting someone as brilliant as President Obama spend it for them for their own good. They're actually THAT egotistical and delusional. 'I want muh freed'm! Even tho I ain't got no book larnin', I reckin I kin cojeetait better'n that Mister 'Bama. Duh! Uh. Duh!"